CompLeap (www.compleap.eu) is an EU (DG Connect) funded project developing new kind of digital solutions to support lifelong competence development. Since there is already a lot of different digital solutions available in the market the project aims to create the framework architecture design which helps to create interoperability between such services. This kind of method is useful also when developing digital guidance services and basically any kind of digital services for learners – the problem is that quite often the development of digital services is not based upon this kind of shared architecture and therefore for example different information systems often are not at all interoperable which also makes their use difficult.
Upon the framework architecture design created in this project CompLeap is also creating new kind of digital service prototypes to this ecosystem. A practical tool that could be used also in career and study guidance is the digital competence profile which gives recommendations of suitable educational paths based on your interest and earlier competence development.
Framework architecture design:
In CompLeap project the enterprise architecture (EA) method is used for creating an integrated and holistic learner-centred digitalised ecosystem framework that will look beyond existing, often siloed, structures.
Main aims and reasons to use EA in general are:
1. Putting the strategy into action
2. Visualizing the ideas and future
3. Steering, leading and decision making
4. Communicating and co-operating
5. Interoperability in all architecture layers
6. For gaining digital transformation
EA is a well working, actually crucial, tool for planning and achieving the learner-centred digitalised ecosystem of competence development.
